Weird guitar thing?

[Sir.Catfish]

Bought it a a garage sale for 10$ Any ideas on what it is?

 

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[Hidenout]

It looks more like some kind of Mandolin/Bass type instrument, though with only 4 tuning pegs, that kind of rules out a mandolin. Look on the inside of the sound hole for any kind of markings or paper label. Never seen anything like it.

 

[Hidenout]

Ahh, it looks like a Dulcimer, Google.

 

[gunsil]

A dulcimer usually has the fret board going across the body, the instrument in question looks like a fancy bodied ukulele to me.

 

[Rookster]

Looks like early Jimmy Hindrix.

 

[mojjax]

I have a few Ukes and a few dulcimers - yours looks like an awesome Uke .

 

[Foggynotion]

It's a dulcimer. You can Google Seagull Merlin Dulcimer. It's almost identical to yours.

 

[boogeyman]

See if you have a Guitar Center near you. They'll ID it for you. If you don't send your pic to them in Email. They saved my old roommate from making a $350 mistake.

 

[pat-tekker-cat]

Nice piece for $10....
I know of an old man, hand makes dulcimers, mandolins, etc., was working on a huge 7 ft harp, when I last saw him. Wished I had gotten pics of the harp, thought you all might enjoy these.

 

[JimDon]

Cool piece whatever it is

 

[jerseyben]

See if you have a Guitar Center near you. They'll ID it for you. If you don't send your pic to them in Email. They saved my old roommate from making a $350 mistake.

The poster above has already essentially ID'd it.

 

[boogeyman]

The poster above has already essentially ID'd it.

okay............... Did you happen he'd like a value on it? Maybe some others might like to have the info in case they find a similar item? You can never have too short of a list of places that'll appraise an item for free. Thanks for playing!

 

[diggummup]

The poster above has already essentially ID'd it.

No, not really.
All the BS aside... It's a cross between a banjo and a dulcimer. It's called a Woodrow. https://thewoodrow.wordpress.com/ NEXT!

btw- It has a diatonic fretboard.

 

[Red-Coat]

Just doing a bit of tidying up on some older threads, mainly for the benefit of anyone searching the site for information.

Cool. Looks like it might be a Woodrow “Grand Appalachian”, or a copy of it:

https://thewoodrow.com/shop/p/artist

These dulcimer-type instruments usually have the bass string tuned to D, the middle string tuned to A and then the pair of treble strings both tuned to a high D (D-A-dd). Alternative tunings include G-D-gg and C-G-cc.